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Brazil - Smoke billows during a fire in an area of the Amazon rain forest near Porto Velho, Rondonia State.

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Mozambique - Buildings damaged during Cyclone Kenneth are seen from the air in a coastal village north of Pemba.

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South Africa - Heavy clouds gather but produce no rain as cracks are seen in the dried up municipal dam in drought-stricken Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape Province.

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China - A herd of cattle seen stranded by floodwaters following heavy rainfall in Jian, Jiangxi Province.

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Russia -

Resembling a nuclear explosion, a huge volcanic ash and gas plume rises above the Kuril Islands in the North Pacific Ocean after an unexpected series of eruptions from the Raikoke volcano.

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Bolivia - An armadillo, which according to a veterinarian was blinded by the heat from a fire, wanders the scorched grounds of the Guarani Nation Ecological Conservation Area Nembi Guasu, where wildfires destroyed hectares of forest.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo - Residents search for the bodies of their missing kin at the scene of a landslide following torrential rains near the University of Kinshasa, in the city of Kinshasa.

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Italy - Lava flows from the Stromboli volcano a day after an eruption unleashed a plume of smoke over the Italian island of Stromboli.

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USA - An aerial view of the Spencer Dam after a storm triggered historic flooding near Bristow, Nebraska.

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The Bahamas - Personnel from the Royal Bahamas Police Force remove a body recovered in a destroyed neighborhood in the wake of Hurricane Dorian in Marsh Harbour, Great Abaco.

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England - Firefighters tackle a fire on a patch of moorland above the village of Uppermill, Saddleworth.

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China - Boats are seen at a pier sitting on the exposed riverbed near Foziling reservoir in drought-affected Huoshan County, Anhui Province.

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Spain - First responders rescue a person stranded inside a flooded tunnel after heavy floods in Pilar de la Horadada, Alicante.

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Indonesia - Bewildered orangutans gather as smoke covers Salat Island, Central Kalimantan Province, which is used by the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation as a pre-release location for the apes.

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South Sudan - A displaced woman looks at her child who is hiding behind her dress in a school now occupied by IDPs (Internally Displaced People) after heavy rains and floods forced hundreds of thousands of people to leave their homes in the town of Pibor, Boma State.

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Switzerland - Workers shovel snow out of a restaurant after an avalanche at Säntis-Schwebebahn mountain resort.

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USA - The Getty Fire burns next to the 405 freeway in the hills of West Los Angeles, California.

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England - A woman uses a bowl to clear water from her driveway to prevent rising flood water from entering her house in the Sale area of Manchester.

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USA - A resident who was forced to leave her home when the Kīlauea volcano erupted now plants a coconut tree on her property in Kapoho, Hawaii.

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Spain - Cleaning up after flash rains hit Arganda del Rey, in the outskirts of Madrid.

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USA - A woman walks away from a damaged house after several tornadoes touched down in Linwood, Kansas.

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Indonesia - A general view of stalls closed following a volcanic eruption at the tourism area of Mount Tangkuban Parahu in the north of Bandung, West Java Province.

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Albania - Drafted in to help in the recovery operation, Italian firefighters work at the site of a collapsed building in the port city of Durrës, this following a powerful earthquake that shook the country.

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Indonesia - Mount Anak Krakatau volcano spews hot ash during an eruption, as seen from Sunda Strait in Lampung.

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USA - A house destroyed by a powerful magnitude 7.1 earthquake, triggered by a 6.4 one the previous day, is seen at night near the epicenter in Trona, California.

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Brazil - A child is seen on a street flooded by the rising Solimões River, one of two main branches of the Amazon River in Anama, Amazonas State.

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Thailand - A family prays near the ruins of a headless Buddha statue, which has resurfaced in a dried-up dam due to drought, this in Lopburi.

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China - Rescue workers set up a lamp as relief work continues after Typhoon Lekima hit Wenzhou, in Zhejiang Province.

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USA - The contents of grain silos that burst from flood damage are shown in Fremont County, Iowa. Damage is estimated in the many thousands of dollars.

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Brazil - A tract of Amazon jungle burns as it is cleared by farmers in Pardo River, Rondonia State. The fires quickly spread out of control, compounded by high winds.

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The Bahamas -

A man walks among debris in the Mudd neighborhood, devastated after Hurricane Dorian hit the Abaco Islands in Marsh Harbour.

See also: Hurricane Dorian and other catastrophic natural disasters.

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